A61M 25/0013
Weakening parts of a catheter tubing
Official title: {Weakening parts of a catheter tubing, e.g. by making cuts in the tube or reducing thickness of a layer at one point to adjust the flexibility}
A61M25/0013 (Weakening parts of a catheter tubing) appears on 191 US grants and 312 published applications in this corpus.
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